Housebuilder starts £2m project to enhance flood resilience for Kingswood

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Yorkshire-based housebuilder Beal Homes has begun work on a £2m project to enhance flood resilience for the whole of Hull's growing Kingswood community.Beal has received planning permission from Hull City Council to bring a further 450 new homes to the popular neighbourhood.

Before beginning construction of the new homes on a 52-acre site, west of Richmond Way, Beal is funding and delivering works to widen and strengthen the embankment alongside the nearby River Hull.

They say the works will not only safeguard Beal's newest development, Kings Crescent, but the entire community in Kingswood, which now includes more than 3,500 homes, as well as numerous commercial and retail units.

The engineering works will involve increasing, by three metres, the width of the embankment on a 1.5km stretch of the riverbank, which borders and extends beyond the new development site, thereby strengthening this defence.

SUDS (sustainable urban drainage systems) will also be developed on the site, with Beal creating a system of basin-shaped "aqua greens" that collect and slow the flow of water during heavy rainfall, further enhancing flood resilience and reducing the impact on existing surface water drainage networks.